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The name “William Trist Bailey” will probably engender not a whiff of recognition by all except true Queens historians these days, but you have him to thank for the far-off (by NYC standards) town of Bayswater, located northwest of downtown Far Rockaway. Bayswater was laid out around 1878 by Bailey, who built homes and a [...]
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NEED ANY MORE proof that New York City is a strange and occasionally confusing place…that it can occasionally baffle anyone looking for common sense in urban planning…or a place that can give urban explorers fits of head scratching? Take a look at Edgemere on the Rockaway peninsula, whose mile after mile of ocean beach front has [...]
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Part Three in a series exploring NYC’s boundaries with other municipalities. Third in the series: Queens’ Far Rockaway FAR ROCKAWAY is a Miss Havisham-esque doyenne whose beauty has long-since faded. No border between New YorCity and any surrounding community could be more stark: this is where the suburban ritziness of Nassau County’s Five Towns (Inwood, Hewlett, [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Street Scenes Tagged with: Far Rockaway Queens Rockaways
New York City has, in decades past, been well protected from foreign attack by two large forts in Queens, one at its southern coast (Fort Tilden) and the other at its northernmost point (Fort Totten). FORT TILDEN, on the western edge of the Rockaway peninsula, was conceived when the USA entered World War I in [...]
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